Our Language

FIRST BOOK

BY

LIDA B. McMURRY

AND

F. T. NORVELL

B. F. JOHNSON PUBLISHING CO.

ATLANTA-RICHMOND-DALLAS

PREFACE

FOR criticism and suggestions made during the preparation and publication of the manuscript of this book the authors would gratefully acknowledge their obligations to Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, of the University of North Carolina, and to Dr. Frank M. McMurry, of Teachers College, Columbia University.

The authors and publishers are indebted to Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson for permission to use "Lord and Lady Flicker," from Stories of Bird Life; to Miss Julie M. Lippmann, for "A Petition from Santa Claus," from Harper's Young People; to Mr. T. C. Karns, for "David Crockett and the Bear," from Tennessee History Stories; to the Taber-Prang Art Co., for the copyrighted illustrations entitled "A False Alarm," "Great Expectations," and "The Village Blacksmith "; and to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for "The Robin's Rain Song," by Celia Thaxter; "The Rabbit's Nest," by John Burroughs; "The Village Blacksmith," by Henry W. Longfellow; "To Mother Fairy," by Alice Cary; and "The Intelligence of Birds," from Olive Thorne Miller's First Book of Birds.

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